Incidently, Vital, I also used this method to relocate "My Pictures" "My Music" etc. OUT of My Documents to sit ALONGSIDE "My Documents" on my data partition.  Outlook Express (and many other apps) will also allow you to relocate your DATA to a different drive/partition, which I do, alongside my other relocated folders on my data partition.

I relocated all of this (as well as created a dedicated partition for the pagefile) because I image partition C and I don't want some things included - things I don't want clobbered if I restore the C partition from an image, as well as to keep my image files small (pagefile bloats it).  

I use a different backup method for my own data - I maintain an uncompressed copy of all "my" stuff  on a separate FAT partition (using SecondCopy) that can be read without special software (that I occasionally put to DVD).  None of my backups are encrypted because any folders containing financial or identity info is already encrypted (as files or folders) on the main data partition using WinZip 12.

This keeps the C partition images small and containing only entertwined/related items - the OS, Registry, and Program Files (installed apps) that can be imaged and restored as a unit in time, with no effect at all my own data.

AnnaSummers


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Vital Tremblay 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 11:24 PM
Subject: My documents folder


Hi I wonder if it is possible under windows XP professionnal to change
the drive where the "My documents" are located? I would like to do
that because it would be safer when I reformat for a fresh
installation. No need to save my document. At least I thing! Is it?
Anyway I would like to do this for easier document finding (lesser deap path).

Thanks

Vital Tremblay (Quebec, Canada)

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